Israel's defence minister orders army to prepare for Gaza residents' departure, after controversial Trump plan

Israel Katzdefence Minister

I welcome President Trump's bold plan, Gaza residents should be allowed the freedom to leave and emigrate, as is the norm around the world,

Israel's Channel 12 quoted Katz as saying

That's why we've joined the South African case in the International Court of Justice (ICJ); it's why we sent voluntary contributions to the International Criminal Court (ICC) so it can investigate crimes that may have been committed in Gaza,

Albares said in the interview

Jonas Gahr Støreprime Minister

The international community cannot accept that the UN, international humanitarian organisations, and states continue to face systematic obstacles when working in Palestine and delivering humanitarian assistance to Palestinians under occupation

Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said

Countries like Spain, Ireland, Norway, and others, which have levelled accusations and false claims against Israel over its actions in Gaza, are legally obligated to allow any Gaza resident to enter their territories,

he said

It is clear to me that powerful states want to rewrite the laws,

Katselli said

Trump referred to Gaza as a demolition site and said that those who go back there would die … That appears to be an admission that the Israeli offensive has resulted in the destruction of civilian infrastructure to the point where it cannot sustain people,

Lemberg-Pedersen said

In legal terms, there is no code or international agreement with the words ethnic cleansing,

said Elena Katselli, of the Newcastle University law school

So you have to leave because you have no options, when the alternative would be starvation, for example,

Singer told the Guardian

I was shocked as a scholar, a teacher of international law and as a human being,

said Dr Maria Varaki, a lecturer in international law at the Department of War Studies at King’s College London

We have no norms at all, so all the things that have been achieved since the second world war are threatened,

she said

Forcibly resettling the Palestinians of Gaza would constitute the crime against humanity of deportation or forcible transfer,

said Dill

Ultimately, President Trump’s proposal amounts to a blatant rejection of the core tenets of international law that have operated since at least the end of World War II and the adoption of the UN Charter,

said Assistant Professor of International Human Rights Law Michael Becker at Trinity College, Dublin

All members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state."

The U.N. Charter says

There are no circumstances in which it is permissible to seize territory by force. The argument that it benefits populations there or elsewhere is legally meaningless even if it were factually correct."

Janina Dill, co-director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict and a specialist in international humanitarian law, said

You look over the decades, it’s all death in Gaza”,

Trump does this through statements such as